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ORIGINAL WILSON BENESCH DISCOVERY MK1 SPEAKERS INC STANDS (PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION).
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Critically acclaimed WB Discovery loudspeakers in black with matching stands and original packaging .. I have owned these for 5 years with one previous owner and they were in dry storage for the last 2 years but upon recently taking them out of storage I discovered they have become faulty even though they were never driven hard ? They resonate at certain frequencies especially in the mid bass region ..Im no expert in the field of speakers but its possible the coils are faulty or something is resonating inside the cabinets and besides the resonance they still sound wonderful ? For someone with expertise and time this could be a total bargain ..
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Side walls of the Discovery are made from carbon fiber. Wilson Benesch assumes that the carbon panels are lightweight, very stiff and have self-damping properties. This material was actually transferred from the company’s tonearms. The carbon is combined with dural and if you do not like the industrial aesthetics the company offers covering the side panels with wood veneer. The application of the veneer on the carbon is provided by specialized suppliers that provide the very same service for Rolls-Royce and Bentley.
The boxes are affixed to a massive aluminum piece that forms a backbone of speakers and connects them with the floor piece, a slab of steel on spikes. There are only three sharp spikes and because the Discovery is a heavy speaker the spikes are quite merciless to any floor.
The aluminum backbone also bears antiresonant binding posts that support bi-wiring. Not only Wilson Benesch provides massive clamps if you do not plan to use the bi-wiring, but it also provides a wrench to tighten the posts so that the connection with a speaker cable is virtually cold-welded.
The 1″ dome tweeter sourced from Danish ScanSpeak, however, the bass drivers are what makes the Discovery so unique. Why drivers if only one is visible? Wilson Benesch works with what they call “Isobaric Tactic configuration: two bass drivers are connected in tandem, with opposite phase. Thus the Discovery doubles its bass output with higher linearity thanks to the symmetrical magnetc field. The air gap between both the drivers remains constant which should also positively affect resonant behaviour of this design. But the Wilson Benesch’s engineering goes even further with another bass driver that is mounted in the bottom of the cabinet, in a separate compartment. This driver’s refex port is what we see as an ‘exhaust pipe’. The other pipe belongs to the other driver(s). Each section is tuned and this is why each pipe is of different length. Vertical stream of bass energy helps stabilizing the speaker mechanically too.
What Hi-Fi Magazine, 2004 (UK) Product of the Year, HiFi Review, 2001 (HONG KONG) Component of the year, Stereosound magazine, 2001 (JAPAN) This loudspeaker has not simply opened up a new frontier for Wilson Benesch; its tremendous appeal may radically change the conventional image of British high-end speakers. Takahito Miura, Stereosound Magazine, Japan, 2001
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